Mr Baer is a Consultant Otolaryngologist at the Conquest Hospital specialising in ear, nose and throat conditions, with a particular interest in middle ear surgery, nose and sinus problems including allergic nasal disease and cosmetic nasal surgery and voice problems.

Mr Baer also has a general interest in childhood ears, nose and throat disease and practices laser surgery.

Mr Baer runs the One-stop Clean Ear Clinic at Spire Sussex Hospital, a quick and easy way for patients to have their ears cleaned and also the One-Stop Nasal Allergy Clinic to find out what patients are allergic to.

Mr Baer qualified in 1981 at St Mary's Hospital medical school with his general surgical training being at London and Oxford before specialist training at St George's Hospital and Bristol and Bath Hospitals as a senior trainee.

Mr Baer has also spent time in Boston, USA, Toronto and Copenhagen prior to taking up his consultant post in 1994.

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Mr Baer is a keen golfer and cricketer and can occasionally lure a trout to a fly!